Hey, Descent looks really awesome now! I can tell you guys have been
working hard on it because it's got a full formatter page and
everything. I can even make it use spaces instead of tabs...good work!
I also note that it does something really interesting with templates
in the outline view, but I haven't played around with that much. What I
am wondering about are two things:
1) Build integration. I notice a descent.launching package in the
source which I assume is for dmd integration, and I notice that on a
Java project, I can do Run As...D Application, but I can't do that on my
D code! Very weird!
2) DSSS integration. I'm not sure this totally makes sense or not, but
I'd like to hear some thoughts on it. It would be cool to have
something like Create Project from DSource... that would be like Create
from SVN...
Anyway, it's good to see all this project on the plugin, and anyone else
who hasn't tried Descent yet, you need to give it a good look now!
Dave

Hey, Descent looks really awesome now! I can tell you guys have been
working hard on it because it's got a full formatter page and
everything. I can even make it use spaces instead of tabs...good work!
I also note that it does something really interesting with templates
in the outline view, but I haven't played around with that much. What I
am wondering about are two things:
1) Build integration. I notice a descent.launching package in the
source which I assume is for dmd integration, and I notice that on a
Java project, I can do Run As...D Application, but I can't do that on my
D code! Very weird!
2) DSSS integration. I'm not sure this totally makes sense or not, but
I'd like to hear some thoughts on it. It would be cool to have
something like Create Project from DSource... that would be like Create
from SVN...
Anyway, it's good to see all this project on the plugin, and anyone else
who hasn't tried Descent yet, you need to give it a good look now!
Dave

Thanks!
1) are you in the D perspective? IMO, I think Eclipse should switch
perspectives whenever you open a language-specific editor, but we lowly plugin
devs can't do too much about it. Background compilation and compiler
integration are being worked on now, so expect them in the semi-near future.
2) do a google search for "Subclipse", a SVN client that integrates with
eclipse quite nicely. Full DSSS integration is a possibility, but we want to
get other stuff like go-to-definition, autocomplete, and import management done
first.
Glad you like the plugin!

2) do a google search for "Subclipse", a SVN client that integrates with
eclipse quite nicely. Full DSSS integration is a possibility, but we want to
get other stuff like go-to-definition, autocomplete, and import management done
first.

Subclipse works like a charm with Descent. One of the many reasons to
give Descent a whirl :)

Thanks for the nice words. :)
As Robert said, we are now focusing on other stuff first. My idea is the
following:
1. Finish porting the semantic code from DMD. In this point, you'll get
error squiggles each time you stop typing for a while. I found having an
immediate response of errors to be very useful, since you can instantly
correct your code and have it always working.
2. Since some of the errors above may include things like "member not
found" or "type not found", it's a step away from using that information
for autocompletion, or for organizing imports.
3. Finally, we would be able to use the information above to smartly
compile the files, i.e., compile only what is needed. The compilation
and probably linkage will happen each time you save a file, as in JDT.
Note that you only need to compile and link your files when you want to
test your project or deliver it. Usually you also compile to check if
there are errors in what you wrote. Now imagine Descent never compiles
the files for you, but always tells you the same errors as the compiler.
Then you'll be a lot of time typing, correcting errors, making
refactors... and at last, you'll open up a console, compile everything
(which is just a dummy step to make your code actually executable... in
an interpreted language this step doesn't exist) and run it. Of course,
Descent will also compile the files for you, but it's the last step
we'll make.
Does this makes sense?
Regards,
Ary
David B. Held wrote:

Hey, Descent looks really awesome now! I can tell you guys have been
working hard on it because it's got a full formatter page and
everything. I can even make it use spaces instead of tabs...good work!
I also note that it does something really interesting with templates in
the outline view, but I haven't played around with that much. What I am
wondering about are two things:
1) Build integration. I notice a descent.launching package in the
source which I assume is for dmd integration, and I notice that on a
Java project, I can do Run As...D Application, but I can't do that on my
D code! Very weird!
2) DSSS integration. I'm not sure this totally makes sense or not, but
I'd like to hear some thoughts on it. It would be cool to have
something like Create Project from DSource... that would be like Create
from SVN...
Anyway, it's good to see all this project on the plugin, and anyone else
who hasn't tried Descent yet, you need to give it a good look now!
Dave

Well, I was gonna help on the build step, but it sounds like you guys
basically have a good groove going, so I think I'll just let you run
with it and wait for the goodies when they come out of the oven. Keep
up the good work!
Dave